Overview

Ashurst rounds up the latest developments in intellectual property and IT law, including:

- The use of ‘own-name’ defence explored in Cipriani trade mark case;

- How database copyright subsists in football fixture lists;

- Online copyright infringement following the Digital Economy Act;

- eBay ‘shill bidding’; the practice of using two separate eBay accounts to bid on your own sale items in order to raise prices;

- A controversial directive to harmonise criminal penalties for intellectual property infringement across the EU; and

- How supplementary protection certificate regulation has been strictly enforced as the Intellectual Property Office refuses protection for a cancer treatment drug.

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